IPS has released a new version of their famous product, Invision Power Board.

The major changes are as follows:

• Improved search and member list performance
• Date filter options for Active Content page
• Many improvements for Sphinx searching (i.e. ability to filter by forum, ability to search titles only, ability to group posts as topics, plugin functionality for modifying the query, and misc bug fixes)
• Ability to hide an application’s tab on the front end, while still allowing it to be publicly accessible
• Improved IP address lookup tool can now support add-on applications
• Portal option to not pin pinned topics for articles
• Added link to user profile when editing a member in ACP
• Added display of time remaining for suspended members when editing a member in ACP
• Spam Monitoring Service support
• Ability to control image quality for Gallery images (jpg/png only)
• PHP version 5.3 is now supported in IP.Board except for OpenID login method. We are awaiting updates from OpenID vendors.

A release note can be found on this thread posted by IPS guys

While browsing a few referal links through my mint stats application, I noticed that some people are running BOTH MSEO 0.4.1 and 1.0.0 Beta 3. Which is troubling me quite a lot that it makes me realise that I need to include an uninstaller for MSEO 0.4.1 asap WITHIN MSEO 1.0.0. 

Even though I wrote in the instruction html file that you need to remove the old edits, it seems that a lot of people are finding it hard to read my documentation. Well…. I am partly to blame as I didn’t have enough time focusing on the documentation of the application.

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First impression on converting MSEO (IPBSEO) to Invision Power Board 3

Moderately easy, I have been playing around with the sytem for around 3-4 hours today and I was pretty impressed with the application folder system. It is quite nifty and powerful. The installation system and development tools are a true helper while importing the settings.

So far I have been able to get the acronymiser and secure redirects working with only 2 file edits. This means good news and I could get a working version within the first or second week of June.

I’ve had a first look at the new IPB 3.0.0 from Invision Power. I must say the new software is robust and powerful. The installation was very long, approximately around 4min. That was done locally on my machine therefore very fast, but if that was installed on a server it might take some time. (BTW i have an intel Quad Core running at 2.6ghz, so it should be running fast )

I really like that IPB now includes hooks, it should now allow developers to deploy their mods much faster. But I could see this harming the software after a while. Too much hooks can and will affect the stability, security and the speed of the board. That doesn’t mean its bad, we just have to use it in moderation.

I have been able to figure out how it work so far. When the source code is available I will be able to understand it and be able to post a guide on my blog on how to create and use the hook system.

For the moment I am going to start writing a skinning guide for IPB 3.x.x and I will post it as soon as I can.

A detailed review will be posted soon.

After recent replies on my guide on how to edit skin template for IPB here is a section that I felt I missed out for new comers who wants to edit their logo.

There are 2 ways, the easy way and the hard way. Both are useful at their own circumstances.

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